Author: Catherine Dempsey

Last weekend, we built a flock of twitterbots at two #peacehacks in London and Brierfield to spread messages of peace on Twitter for International Peace Week. The latest hackathon joined a campaign from Build Up and International Alert to build #robotsforpeace to reach as many people as possible and get #peaceday trending on Twitter. Tech[…]

Morning’s pitches so far: App to request evidence on hate speech posting Choose your own adventure’ tool based on cartoon guidance on how to respond to hate speech with characters and scenarios to help fight hate speech Emojifies type tool to suggest changing hateful words ‘why don’t you use this other word instead?’ with positive[…]

We’re recapping on problem statements and ideas from last night. Ideas so far: App to identify and tag ppl as victims and bullies Twitter analysis apis to discover and analyse hate speech App to identify ppl with different views and invite them to safe dialogue Opinion-ometer to search and rate opinions Blocking system – to[…]

At #peacehackZRH hosted by the Build Peace conference in Zurich, developers worked on problem statements provided by the Build Peace Fellows. We hacked the hack this time – shifting our usual structure of separate teams competing – as the developers were keen to work on all three problem statements. They worked together in 3 hour[…]